Molotov One Step Closer!

A Molotov Abso defending itself

ATLAS ALLIANCE vs Molotov Coalition

Reported By: ISD Clarity Brown

Molotov Coalition took victory in this hard-fought match against ATLAS ALLIANCE, though at several points it looked like it might have gone the other way.

ATLAS ALLIANCE: Claymore | Nightmare | 7 Phantasm
Molotov Coalition: Absolution | 2 Harbinger | 2 Hurricane | Ishkur | 3 Kitsune

ATLAS fielded their whole team right in the centre of the arena, eager to go toe to toe with the enemy. Molotov did likewise with its command ship and battlecruisers, but positioned its Ishkur and Kitsunes safely behind its heavier ships, where they would be either out of range in a good position to accelerate away from long-range fire.

J Johnson’s Phantasm was the initial primary target for the Molotov Coalition team and the first casualty of the match. ATLAS unleashed all their firepower on Kenneth McCoy’s Harbinger, taking him out of the fight shortly before Molotov claimed their second Phantasm kill from DaddyMassiveJr – the Phantasms seemed quite fast and agile to the onlooker, leading to speculation that they may have been nano-fitted.

White Aero lost his Phantasm to Molotov’s lasers as his team attempted to thin out the enemy Kitsune’s jamming them and reducing their firepower, successfully killing deltauk1 of Molotov. Xonja 2zero’s Ishkur was forced to retreat out to long range when she came under fire from multiple ATLAS Warrior II drones that proceeded to chase her all over the arena.

D0INK (Hurricane) of Molotov and Estoika Chonda (Phantasm) of ATLAS were the next kills. This put ATLAS very low on firepower, while Molotov retained substantial capacity to deal damage and still had quite a viable e-war squadron. Kerdrak was next, leaving only two other Phantasm for ATLAS’ team, along with the Claymore and Nightmare .

ATLAS were far from out of the fight yet, however. A few volleys of focused fire incinerated Jan Blackoak’s Harbinger, and Torashuu of ATLAS lost his Phantasm while teammate SauliusV (also in a Phantasm) killed off Aisha Pei’s Kitsune, followed by Splitter Macdung’s. This finally set the ATLAS Nightmare free to unleash its substantial damage potential against Nikita Bordinko’s Harbinger, melting the robust tier 2 battlecruiser. But Molotov moved into a close orbit around the battleship, attempting to confound its enhanced tracking, and killed SauliusV in the last remaining Phantasm for ATLAS.

With the last ATLAS cruiser down, Xonja’s Ishkur started moving back to the support of her alliance mates, and the Molotov Coalition pilots managed to crush the ATLAS Claymore piloted by DeddyMassive. ookke’s Nightmare was managing to track the Molotov Absolution at first, but slowly began to run out of capacitor, forcing the pilot to choose between gunnery and defence.

ookke managed to hold his ship together for a while, barely dealing any damage in an effort to hold on to the capacitor needed for his shields and perhaps deny Molotov the points for his death, but eventually, the ship imploded under the enemy fire, leaving Molotov with Xonja 2zero’s Ishkur, DruzidelCastro’s Hurricane and Alpha Plus’s Absolution holding the field.